On 30 th occasion of the UN’s International Day of Older Persons, which is marked every year on 1 st October, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is raising concerns about the links between experiencing a fall at home and poverty in later life. A sp...

Safety charity RoSPA is calling for a step-change increase in investment in prevention, after new statistics revealed that emergency admissions are continuing to increase each year. The latest National Audit Office Reducing emergency admissions report states that overall e...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is launching a campaign to prevent thousands of older people being unnecessarily admitted to hospital from a fall at home.   RoSPA, the UK’s leading accident prevention charity, has created the short film, F...

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is supporting Age Awareness Week in Northern Ireland by focusing on how an active lifestyle can prevent falls. A total of 6,394 over-65s spent at least one night in hospital in Northern Ireland from 2005-10 as the result of a fal...

With falls being the leading cause of accidental death in older people, the RoSPA Home Safety Congress on Thursday, March 16, will put their prevention at centre stage. Falls not only have devastating consequences to the quality of life for those who suffer them, but also le...

With falls being the most common cause of accidents to children in the home, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is making it the focus for the second day of its Family Safety Week to help people protect their loved ones from death and injury. Ten child...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and RSA Insurance Group have today launched the ground-breaking Fall Fighter initiative with the aim of tackling the UK’s biggest forgotten killer – falls in the home.   Falls are the single biggest cause of accid...

This morning, The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) warned of a “crisis of patient safety” as they released figures from a recent survey, indicating that nearly two-thirds of emergency departments had ambulances queuing to transfer patients every day. The survey, w...

A series of online strength and balance sessions for people in later life are being arranged to tackle falls – a leading cause of fatal and serious accidents in the home – as part of a partnership between the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) and insurer...

In response to today’s announcement from Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock on the “Prevention is Better than Cure” vision, Errol Taylor, RoSPA’s chief executive, said: “We are delighted to hear that the government is finally beginning to place prevention at the hear...